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Our fires high and the airbags tight
Food′s low but the skies are bright
Props spinning all through the night
We′re low on cash but seen another target

Goggles down and the cannons up
My blood starts pumping as I drain my cup
I give the wheel a spin and I turn this girl around
We′re way above ground but we′re closed in on our target

Flying Jib is filled with air
East India ships filled with despair
We even up, her broadsides bare
Our cannons flair but it’s just a show of muscle

Steady on, she doesn’t need to burn
She tries to flee and she tries to turn
Grappling fire, we latch her hull
She’s starting to roll, but we’ve got her on a leash

With a crew of drunken pilots
We’re the only airship pirates
We’re full of hot air and we’re starting to rise
We’re the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves now

Expendable crew starts to reel her in
Our swords are sharpened and we′re ready to sin
I’m three miles up, we′re about to swing aboard
My tether′s made of leather so I’m not about to fall here

A swish of air and my boots hit deck
No cash, no fuel, no not a speck
Our grape shots made this bird a wreck
And a glance below deck shows a crew of nuns and orphans

With a crew of drunken pilots
We’re the only airship pirates
We’re full of hot air and we’re starting to rise
We’re the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves
(repeats)

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A heroine, a deity
on heroin, or vanity
To jack their personality,
beyond normal humanity.
A crowd of massed humanity
bow and worship diligently.
He′s built a loyal following
and they steer him thoroughly.

But jealous man plots from the pews,
no need for valid righteousness.
One slightly truthful word set free,
will turn the tides quite easily.
Our accusations need not be
what would bury mortal man.
The sins of our own deity are tiny,
but on these we stand.

So once upon the podium,
a crucifix we then erect,
And nail our hero heartily,
hands and feet, we bind his neck.
The reasons for our worship fades,
our Idol drenched in his own blood,
Forgotten are the virtues that we,
valued beyond royalty.

Such joy we dig his shallow grave,
anticipating pains to come.
We watch the wriggling dance of death,
and laugh light hearted at deaths fun.
We pounded out the joyous light.
Our saviors buried now for years.
A legend now of time gone by,
A martyr of forgotten tears.

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Our ancient nightmares, the ghostly legends,
And fiendish tales, all the myths are true.
Scientists have unearthed enormous skeletons
They think we′ve disproved that all the myths are true.

"Year after year, science finds explanations, scientific reasons behind all the legends. They
think this proves history was not as myth has
shown it, but in fact it proves that all the myths were true."

The ruined remains of an ancient city
Deep underwater, all the myths are true
Scientists have unearthed enormous skeletons
They think we′ve disproved that all the myths are true.

Deep in the forest, half-crazed witch doctors
with their herbal magics. All of it is true.
They′ve found traces of neurotoxins in
the zombie′s bloodstream. All the myths are true.

Ancient nightmares, archaic legends,
Enigmatic dreams. All of it is true.

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Deep, dark forest kingdom
Under banyan covered skies
Lived a king with untold riches;
Jewels, gold, and two fair wives.
Both had hair as black as midnight,
Coal-black eyes that sparkled bright,
Terracotta skin as smooth as bronze
And tender movements like a sprite.

Every night he indulged his fantasies
Enjoyed his wives and went to sleep
As he slept his wives kept secrets
Holding hands under the sheets.

Each dark day in this ancient palace
The Emperor sat on his thrown of gold,
While his young wives explored bright gardens.
Eye met eyes and hands did hold.

One hot day in the dead of summer,
The emperor′s wife saw a look of love on her Lovers face - toward their husband.
Fires burned jealous, she lost her love.
On hot night in the dead of summer,
The Emperor′s wife stole′d a magi′s blade
and crept into her lovers chamber
and as they slept her lovers slay′d.

Deep, dark forest kingdom
Under banyan covered skies
Lived a king with untold riches;
Jewels, gold, and two fair wives.
Both had hair as black as midnight,
Coal-black eyes that sparkled bright,
Terracotta skin as smooth as bronze
And tender movements like a sprite.

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And I need you
And I grieve you, darlin′
And I bleed you
But I still see what I will be
And I need you

Further away from me & longer you stay
I see that our love′s not growing stronger everyday

And I need you
And I grieve you, darlin′
And I bleed you
But I still see what I will be
And I need you

No longer do I wish I′ll feel the end of life
For it′s been now many years since I first caused you strife

And I need you
And I grieve you, darlin′
And I bleed you
But I still see what I will be
And I need you

How much better would your life be if you had not found me
So it seems my presence only brings you apathy

And I need you
And I grieve you, darlin′
And I bleed you
But I still see what I will be
And I need you

When I do what I will
That kind of love seems to kill
All the faith, all the trust
What′s my chance that a glance, unhappy circumstance
Oh my God, what a rush
Only you indicate, only you implicate any form of distrust
Can′t you see it should be me
Your apathy in a way only causes distrust

And I need you
And I grieve you, darlin′
And I bleed you
But I still see what I will be
And I need you

Further away from me & longer you stay
I see that my hold′s not growing stronger everyday

And I need you
And I grieve you, darlin′
And I bleed you
But I still see what I will be
And I need you

And I need you
And I grieve you, darlin′
And I bleed you
But I still see what I will be
And I need you

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Captain Robert took his men
And flew to Prague and back again
Some fell off, some dropped dead
And some put bullets through their head

A skeleton crew is what came back
And once in port he filled his sack
With bribes and cash, fame and coin
Things to make a new crew join

Captain Robert took his crew
To Shangri-la and Timbuktu
Some went crazy, some got mad
Some they kicked off ship in Chad

A skeleton crew is what came back
Who lived through mutiny, plague and flak
Strong and calloused, brave and tired
All those who could stay inspired

Captain Robert took his ship
To Beijing and to Mozambique
Stir crazy or in irons he clapped them
One of them tried to kiss the captain

Captain Robert looked at his crew
And saw that everyone was new
The crew got broke through misadventure
No-one could take another gut wrencher

A skeleton crew is what came back
Who lived through mutiny, plague and flak
Strong and calloused, brave and tired
All those who could stay inspired

A skeleton crew is what came back
And once in port he filled his sack
With bribes and cash, fame and coin
Things to make a new crew join

Captain Robert took his crew
To Shangri-la and Timbuktu
Some went crazy, some got mad
Some they kicked off ship in Chad...

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I, I′ve suffered long enough in this ghost town
I saw the walls, called their bluff and tore them down

When I think of all the time I′ve wasted
All the bitter pills I′ve tasted
I have to hang my head and frown
I, I′ve suffered long enough in this ghost town

Soon came a day under skies that were gray
When I knew I couldn′t stay in this ghost town full of
Clones and clowns and carbon copy towns, with
Kine and swine and nothing that was mine,
And this town′s decline with my hatred intertwined,
So I gather all I find and I bolted it to me,
Fueled my fires and I grabbed my pliers, and I′m lit!

I made my own machine
Yes, we′re building steam
I hate the same routine.

I made my own machine
Yes, we′re building steam
I hate the same routine.

I, I never looked back--I want to never return
If I could find a fuse, those bridges would burn

But I keep this horse at a run
Keep my hand to my gun
My path the vampires have learned.
So I, I can never look back; I can never return.

Soon came a day under skies that were gray
When I knew I couldn′t stay in this ghost town full of
Clones and clowns and carbon copy towns, with
Kine and swine and nothing that was mine,
And this town′s decline with my hatred intertwined,
So I gather all I find and I bolted it to me,
Fueled my fires and I grabbed my pliers, and I′m lit!

I made my own machine
Yes, we′re building steam
I hate the same routine

(repeat last three lines 5x)

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All these roots run deep,
And this tree is old,
This trunk is rotten
All these leaves have mold

Is it in our blood?
Or is it from abuse?
Past generations,
Legacy of misuse?

I know my blood runs hot,
And I′ve seen my blood is thick
I′m told my bloods not sweet,
And I cry, "My soul is sick"

We′re the children of children
And we′re handing down their pain
The root of all evil
Is the sanity left to gain?

We were the victims, we were the culprits
We were the children who cry at night
We are the hunted, and we do the hurting
We are the children who cry at night

The fathers father father
May have made this truth
Or was it in HIS blood
This legacy of abuse

We′re the children of children
And we′re handing down there pain
The root of all evil
Is the sanity left to gain?

We were the victims, we were the culprits
We were the children who cry at night
We are the hunted, and we do the hurting
We are the children who cry at night

All these roots run deep,
And this tree is old,
This trunk is rotten
All these leaves have mold

Is it in our blood?
Or is it from abuse?
Past generations
Legacy of misuse?

We were the victims, we were the culprits
We were the children who cry at night
We are the hunted, and we do the hurting
We are the children who cry at night

We were the victims, we were the culprits
We were the children who cry at night
We are the hunted, and we do the hurting
We are the children who cry at night

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One hundred years ago isn′t long
Would you be blamed for another′s wrong
Generations claiming retribution
While your poets & your prophets are yelling "execution"

Who′s building the walls now?
Who′s building the walls now?
I never held you down
I never put you down
I never held you down
Let′s be brothers

Ten billion people all unique
You′ve only got one thing in common
The color of your cheeks
You put down your brothers who found a way to fit in
It′s survival of the fittest
But you say they′ve betrayed their own kin

Who′s building the walls now?
Who′s building the walls now?
I never held you down
I never put you down
I never held you down
Let′s be brothers

I′ll never say you have no right
But the only cure today is not to fight
Hate will not stop hate, I know I′m right
But when you trust a man today whose skin is white

Who′s putting the chains on now?
Who′s putting the chains on now?
I never held you down
I never put you down
I never held you down
Let′s be brothers

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Testtubes and Tesla coils,
clockwork brain and glowing oils,
copper, brass, explosive jelly
He may compete, but he′s too dally.
invented the radio transmitting, too.
played poker with faraday, tesla and poe.
harvest the daylight to power airships,
and they are still intoxined from posting his drips.

(2x)
Entropy′s fading his life away
before the world could ever see
dissipating, evaporating

They have him sealed behind locked doors,
amending here from fighting cold wars.
Invented steam sails and taught them to fight
and they stopped things to go bump in the night,
all his acomplishments hidden for life,
his genius′s top secret even from his wife,
an aged wrinkled genius his memory fading,
his fate, his creations, the government evading

(2x)
Entropy′s fading his life away
before the world could ever see
dissipating, evaporating

Testtubes and Tesla coils,
clockwork brain and glowing oils,
copper, brass, explosive jelly
He may compete, but he′s too dally.
invented the radio transmitting, too.
played poker with faraday, tesla and poe.
harvest the daylight to power airships,
and they are still intoxined from posting his drips.

(3x)
Entropy′s fading his life away
before the world could ever see
dissipating, evaporating

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Should I start by saying that we all lived in fear,
from day to week to month to year?
Or should I start by saying that our food ran sort,
not a ham or a loaf, a cake or a tort?
No, I should start by telling of the beasts that lived with in the courts of our castle,
in who′s walls lived our kin.
They fed off our crops, eat all our live stock,
but had far to many teeth for any of us to stop.

Now hold on, let me tell this complete.
For there was more to this story then the beasts at our feet.
For the world round our castle was a desert immense,
and its rumored that its dragons lived in present tense.
Now the time would come when we′d have to run to the nearest oasis,
cross the dunes under sun.
But which way to go no map did show, so I feared our people had no way to know.

Now you must forgive me if this sounds a bit vain, but you see,
only I thought of Cellophane.
Some thought there much too fragile, you must be insane,
to think that you could lead the people on your wings of cellophane.

So I started our permanent pilgrimage beyond the walls so dense.
I stumbled hapless and hopeless and helpless into the desert immense
I had to fulfill my promise so I took to the sky,
guiding our way on cellophane wings you could see only I.

I could see the distant forest but the people coward in fear
They could hear our ancient captives in the desert drawing near.
They all began to quiver and doubt if my theory was true.
I′ll be the first to admit our hour of fear I quivered too.

Now the sun bleed dark crimson as the lightening seared the sand.
The Hour of all our destinies was drawing at hand.

Upshot a self defeating word, slashed my wings like a knife.
In the moment before I fell flashed the folly of my life.
If only I saw our salvation, our blind journey was in vain.
But maybe we could have each escaped on wings of cellophane.

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It feeds on the souls of the living.
It gets inside their minds.
It transforms their brains and their longings,
No consciousness it will find.

It feeds on their fears and emotions,
As it has for 2000 years.
It′s infected the Hindus, infected the Buddhists,
And kept them all in tears.

If you′re dead, it will keep you alive.
And if you′re alive, it keeps you nearly dead.
It forces the body to seek uninfected,
And gets inside their heads.

Once your brain is infected,
It changes what makes you pleased.
It forces your body to seek uninfected,
And add them to the diseased.

In this way it creeps slowly
All across the lands.
But the wise and the strong can still join forces,
Defending our last stand

If you′re dead, it will keep you alive.
And if you′re alive, it keeps you nearly dead.
It forces the body to seek the uninfected,
And gets inside their heads.

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I take a steam train to work
Just like the one my father took
And I pass over the walls
I see the people as I look

I see there′s the block
For folks with purple skin
There′s the block for folks who have no chin
There′s the block for me & all my kin
And over there′s the change cage where we throw the rebels in

I work the change cage
Here on our side of the wall
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall

I work the change cage
Here on our side of the wall
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall

Walls of iron bolted with steel
Two miles high that should hide how we feel
And in the city we′ve walled off each block
This should work to segregate any racial melting pot

Long ago we learned of the trouble
When a man steps out of his life′s plastic bubble
So we walled off the city, caged thoughts that were free
And now our lives are safe from any change that
Could have come between you & me

I work the change cage
Here on our side of the wall
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall

I work the change cage
Here on our side of the wall
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall

They say an artist from block 616
Revived some old art just for his own kicks
They say his pictures were lude
They say his women were nude
So we throw them inside

Well now that artist can run, he can hide
But sooner or later we′ll throw him inside
I don′t think the people should see
Well that′s not art to me
So we′ll throw them inside

I work the change cage
Here on our side of the wall
And I will hold the key until the day they say the cage will fall

And I will hold the key??

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Still I push this boulder up this rocky hill
If I lose my footing this rock will kill
Perpetual dusk has me dimly lit
So I can′t see the top or know how far it is

Now life is a constant and death is a beast
Every time it′s been fed it′s presence′s increased
I feel it′s wings and it′s eyes bore my neck
This pressure has turned me into a wreck

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

It′s a cold and a hollow and lonely life
I′ve seen anguish and anger, fear and strife
Now the darkness comes and it takes my pride
But I′ve learnt to face the darkness in my stride

And I′ve felt it′s teeth pierce through my neck and back
I′ve felt my skin rip and I′ve heard my bones crack
And if I have strength left we′ll soon see
For the shadow of life has eaten me

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

Well now comfort and security leave stride by stride
If I could see some way out I′d throw away my pride
But I can′t go back and my death lies ahead
And the end of this life fills me with dread

Still I push this boulder up this rocky hill
If I lose my footing this rock will kill
Perpetual dusk has me dimly lit
So I can′t see the top or know how far it is

Ooh ooh ooh ooh

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I see the world with my eyes open
I see the world through lidless eyes
I see a world that is sick with self-loathing
Nothing in the nothing to mystify

Black day, Black night
Flesh is burnt us under in the broad daylight
Black day, Black night
And the devil′s softly singing through the thick of the fight

I see the world in sinking depression
I see the world in a stinking digression
No chance for heaven we′re already in hell
And the devil′s taking over at the ring of his bell

Black day, Black night
Flesh is burnt us under in the broad daylight
Black day, Black night
And the devil′s softly singing through the thick of the fight

I see the world with my eyes open
I see the world through lidless eyes
I see a world that is sick with self-loathing
Nothing in the nothing to mystify

Black day, Black night
Flesh is burnt us under in the broad daylight
Black day, Black night
And the devil′s softly singing through the thick of the fight

I see the world in sinking depression
I see the world in a stinking digression
No chance for heaven we′re already in hell
And the devil′s taking over at the ring of his bell

Black day, Black night
Flesh is burnt us under in the broad daylight
Black day, Black night
And the devil′s softly singing through the thick of the fight

I see the world??

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Cross from me sat the new emperor, Hardly 13
And I asked him why he cried

No one stays around anymore, I cannot guess why
In my world they should try

I asked how loyal are your subjects
"Not" was the child king′s reply, "Rarely will they comply"

"I always search for new subjects, Still I′m loathsome to try"
"If they served me too long they would fortify"

"With all of my benevolence
There′s still no obedience
Or is it just coincidence
That everyone here′s indifferent
So I must move on"

"So I fear a dependence"
The Child King said
"Between my subjects and I
So if they leave me I won′t die"

"I always search for new subjects
Still I′m loathsome to try
In my world they should try"

"With all of my benevolence
There′s still no obedience
Or is it just coincidence
That everyone here′s indifferent
So I must move on"

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